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China began airlifting aid Wednesday to the areas worst hit by a massive earthquake, while reporting a huge jump in deaths certain to push the death toll close to 20,000 — including nearly 80 percent of one town's population. The official Xinhua News Agency said 7,700 people died in Yingxiu town...
Economic experts are querying the impact of Chancellor Alistair Darling's surprise announcement of £2.7bn to compensate people who lost out from the abolition of the 10p income tax rate. Some think the extra borrowing to fund increases in personal tax allowances could force him to breach his own...
No one is watching President Bush's trip to the Middle East closer than his potential successors. But for all the distinctions the two draw between each other, and Bush, the next president's approach to the Middle East may look like this one's. He finishes the trip Saturday and Sunday in Egypt at...
The City Council narrowly approved taking the first step Tuesday toward removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is charged with perjury over explicit text messages sent to a former aide. Council members voted 5-4 to begin forfeiture of office proceedings against Kilpatrick. On a separate 5-4 vote,...
Saudi Arabia criticizes Iran's Hezbollah support Iranian president denies interference, influence of its government in region RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia accused Iran of backing what it called a coup by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon — the clearest sign yet of rising regional tensions over...
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of Americans killed in the war in Iraq. "I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf," Bush said in an interview with Yahoo
The House and Senate demanded on Tuesday that President George W. Bush halt the shipment of oil to the country's strategic petroleum reserve as long as oil prices remain high. "Sticking oil underground is wrong at this point in time," Senator Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, said as he...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - The Defense Department must focus on current war demands, even if it means straining the U.S. armed forces and devoting less time and money to future threats, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. Meeting the war-fighting needs of the troops now and taking care...
People look at one of the bomb sites in Jaipur which killed 80 people JAIPUR (AFP) - Police have questioned four people on Wednesday in connection with a series of bombings which tore through crowded markets in the Indian tourist city of Jaipur, killing at least 80 people and leaving about 200...
As U.S. President George W. Bush arrives in Israel to help celebrate the Jewish state's 60th birthday, he will find his host, Ehud Olmert, in deep trouble. A widening investigation into the Israeli leader's financial dealings is turning up evidence that those close to the probe say is giving...
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